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Tracking and Predicting the German Economy : Ifo vs. Pmi

Lehmann, Robert - 2020

This analysis investigates the predictive power of the most important leading indicators for the German economy, which are provided by the ifo Institute and IHS Markit. We conduct an out-of-sample, real-time forecast experiment for growth of gross domestic product and growth of gross value added...

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Fiscal Equalization as a Driver of Tax Increases : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 2018

This paper exploits a recent devolution of tax setting powers in the German federation to study the effects of fiscal equalization on subnational governments’ tax policy. Based on an analysis of the system of fiscal equalization transfers, we argue that the redistribution of revenues provides...

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting Islamic immigrants in Germany. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data …

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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics

Mrazova, Monika - 2019

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...

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Harmonization and Interpretation of the Ifo Business Survey's Micro Data

Link, Sebastian - 2019

Every month, the ifo Business Survey (IBS) asks a representative set of 9000 German firms about their current and expected economic conditions. Thus, the micro data of the IBS are ideally suited to study various aspects of firm behavior. However, methodological heterogeneities between different...

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

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Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

BARZA, Radu - 2020

Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations. We find that employees in...

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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining : Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996--2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...

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Trust, Investment and Competition : Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2019

Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...

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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita - 2019

administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no …

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